Sentence examples for relation to the reality from inspiring English sources

He accused his critics of "clinging on to outdated mantras that bear no relation to the reality of life".

What the media is telling us about events bears so little relation to the reality of life for the majority of citizens.

Unfortunately, she said, like those ideas, the project was a "vague and generalized wish list that bears little relation to the reality on the ground".

Andy Carroll has claimed his reputation as a hard-drinking socialiser bears no relation to the reality of his monastic lifestyle in Liverpool but accepts he may never shed the public image that developed at Newcastle United.

Like the gray flannel suit, which also achieved cultural ascendancy in America in the mid-20th century, the curtain wall bears little relation to the reality of what lies underneath.

As with so many academic historians, Thompson's capacity for close observation and her honesty, which are impressive, are occasionally undermined by a desiccated political vocabulary that bears little relation to the reality of American life, then or now.

"This was completely hard-line, and it shows that he's living in a fantasy, a make-believe world that bears no relation to the realities around him — neither the extent of the opposition against him nor the nature of the opposition," said Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.

Conceiving of women as a series thus allows for the sense in which they share certain features but in which they can also possess striking differences in their relation to the realities that make them part of that series.

Given the article's relatively reasonable and practical tone, particularly in relation to the realities of U.S.-Israeli relations, one could be forgiven for considering it as both a potential template for a working policy document on how to approach Iran-U.S. relations as well as de facto encouragement to do so.

For example, students would be taught about processes (e.g. nursing assessments, care planning or particular clinical procedures) that had no relation to the realities of practice and that they had never witnessed.

The figures on college plans suggest that on yet a second measure, Houston put forth data that bear small relation to the hard reality most students face.